The publisher or the author's estate should be able to license the materials.
he is dead man he died in 1965
no, different writer.
Nikolai Gogol
No, He Is Very Much Alive.
Yes of course he's dead, he was a Victorian writer. He died in 1912.
N.H. Kleinbaum
Stephen King
Decomposition.
They eat all dead and decomposed materials
Percy Shelley, husband of the famous writer Mary Shelley, and a good writer in his own, said "Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep. He hath awakened from the dream of life."
Not only dead, but dead for quite a long time. All members of the World Trade Organization protect copyrighted materials for the life of the creator plus 50 years at a minimum; the US and some other countries have extended this to the life of the creator plus 70 years. This was not always the case, particularly in the US. See the link below for an excellent visualization of the increase in copyright duration over time.
They decompose dead, organic materials.